Thinking Through the Past, Volume II

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This reader for the US history survey course gives students the opportunity to apply critical thinking skills to the examination of historical sources, providing pedagogy and background information to help students draw substantive conclusions. The careful organization and the context provided in each chapter makes the material accessible for students, and this helps instructors to engage their students in analysis and discussion.

Historians and Textbooks: The "Story" of Reconstruction

Sources: Reconstruction (1906)

The Negro in Reconstruction (1922)

The Ordeal of Reconstruction (1966)

Reconstruction: An Unfinished Revolution (2001)

Using Primary Sources: Industrialization and the Condition of Labor

Sources: Testimony of Workingmen (1879)

"Earnings, Expenses and Conditions of Workingmen and Their Families" (1884)

"Human Power?Is What We Are Losing" (1910)

Why We Struck at Pullman (1895)

Colored Workmen and a Strike (1887)

"I Struck Because I Had To" (1902)

Women Make Demands (1869)

Summary of Conditions Among Women Workers Found by the Massachusetts Bureau of Labor (1887)

A Union Official Discusses the Impact of Women Workers (1897)

Work in a Garment Factory (1902)

Gainful Workers by Age, 1870-1920 Breaker Boys (1906)

Night Shift in a Glass Factory (1906)

Evaluating Primary Sources: "Saving" the Indians in the Late Nineteenth Century

Sources: "Land and Law as Agents in Educating Indians" (1885)

The Dawes Act (1887)

A Cheyenne Tells His Son About the Land (1876)

Cheyennes Try Farming (ca. 1877)

A Sioux Recalls Severalty (ca. 1900)

Supervised Indian Land Holdings by State, 1881-1933

A Proposal for Indian Education (1888)

Instructions to Indian Agents and Superintendents of Indian Schools (1889)

The Education of Indian Students at Carlisle (1891)

Luther Standing Bear Recalls Carlisle (1933)

Wohaw's Self-Portrait (1877)

Taking an Indian Child to School (1891)

A Crow Medicine Woman on Teaching the Young (1932)

Percentage of Population Over Ten Illiterate, 1900-1930

Evaluating a Historical Argument: American Manhood and Philippine Annexation

Secondary Sources: Male Degeneracy and the Allure of the Philippines (1998)

Primary Sources: "Recommended by Hoar" (1899)

"The Anti-Expansion Ticket for 1900" (1899)

"The White Man's Burden" (1899)

"The Filipino's First Bath" (1899)

"The Strenuous Life" (1899)

William McKinley on Annexation (1899)

"In Support of an American Empire" (1900)

Selection from the Treaty Debate (1899)

Value of Manufactured Exports, 1866-1900

Value of U.S. Exports by Country of Destination, 1866-1900

The Problems of Historical Motivation: The Bungalow and the "Progressive House."

Secondary Source: The Progressive Housewife and the Bungalow (1981)

Primary Sources: A Victorian House (1881)

A Craftsman Cottage (1909)

The Craftsman Contrasts Complexity and Confusion with Cohesion and Harmony (1907)